In a state of shock she called 9-1-1 herself already beginning to feel weak.

“I just got shot with something,” she told the dispatcher. “Hurry, please, I can’t breathe.”

It wasn’t until she came home from the hospital 10 days later that she saw the bullet hole in the window. She only remembers hearing an argument on the sidewalk, but never heard the window glass shatter as the bullet pierced it.

Lynn police have yet to make an arrest, saying it remains an open case. But she wants to know who would be so careless in the neighborhood and with her life.

“I’m angry the person got away with it, and that’s not right,” she said.

She’s known in the neighborhood for helping stray animals, and can’t believe she could be in the wrong place at the wrong time in her own home.

Two months later she is still healing, and knows how close she came. “Very fortunate, very fortunate. I wasn’t ready to die, definitely not ready to die.”